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Windows 7: Dual Boot startup screen

After installing Windows 7, the MBR was corrupted and I had to reinstall... no problem with 7, but now I have two instances of Windows7 on the mbr screen at startup. the one that works and a non-working one under it. Again, not a real problem, but for the sake of neatness, can I remove this line from the screen? I am still dual booting with XP until I am confident that all my processes will work in 7, then I will want to remove the XP partition and bypass the screen to choose the OS. Any place out there to get info on these things? Confession - the MBR was borked when I removed the IBM partition with XP utilities, etc and left the XP and 7 partitions, expanding 7 to use the space. Since I have Student download copy from DigitalRiver of 7 I don't have a disk to put in and repair. Disk is in the mail (right!) so a reinstall was the only fix I could come up with.

(Later) OK, I just read a little about a repair disk that I can make, now that I,m running again. Is this the right direction? Is there a fixmbr command?

I've seen the commands:>FIXBOOT {driveletter}:>FIXMBR>BOOTCFG /rebuildbut will this be the correct command after deleting the XP partition?Also, saw:> bootrec /fixMBR > bootrec /fixBoot > bootrec /rebuildBCD > bootrec /scanOS No idea how to use these or if they are the correct commands... I could get into a terminal in Linux, but where do I find the "terminal" in seven? any details will be appreciated.

This can help show you how to remove the extra Windows 7 entry listed in the Windows Boot Manager. Be sure that you delete the correct one though. You can make sure by making one of them the default OS and restarting the computer to see if that is the one it starts to or not.

Dual Boot startup screen

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General Discussion

How to remove the flash blip of the dual boot screen at startupHi All,
I recently acquired a used Lenovo Y580 laptop. The previous owner had a dual boot system in place (now removed and only running win7 ultimate.)
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